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Anonymous
April 1, 2011
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Error #1107: The ABC data is corrupt? Stuck...

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Hi everyone,

I'm having an absolute nightmare with my current project (a Flash game) just now as I keep getting the above error. With a bit of rooting around it seems that it is being caused by my one of my MovieClips - a simple mc containing a set of tutorial pages on how to play the game. I've googled the error but keep finding conflicting 'causes' none of which seem to apply to my project. If I remove this movieclip from my code the project works fine, so the issue is definitely coming from it.

One possible cause of this error I read was 'annonymous' functions on the timeline. Now I'm not entirely sure what an annonymous function is, but I have since commented out ALL of my timeline code with the exception of a stop() command in each keyframe. I don't usually code on the timeline at all because I think it's messy, this was just a one off. Either way, it made no difference whatsoever.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this error? Everything contained in this mc with the exception to a few text boxes is used elsewhere in the project so I really can't understand why it's causing issues here. I've been stuck now for about a day and a half and I'm running out of time to get this fixed. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Correct answer kglad

I've narrowed it down futher - it has taken a dislike to a single instance of a CloseButton movieclip that is present in the HowToPlaySection MovieClip. Now this exact same CloseButton movieclip is used in at least 5 other places around my program without fault, but here it does not like it :/

If I remove it and replace it with any random movieclip (with the same instance name) the code works fine again, no errors. I can see no problem with the CloseButton mc - it is just a simple movieclip with four frames titled as they would be in an instance of the button class (_up, _over, _down, _hit) and it's buttonMode property set to true.


replace that button with one that looks the same.

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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April 1, 2011

for runtime errors you can use either the trace() function to pinpoint the the first line with that error or, better yet, comment code (/* - */) to pinpoint the exact line(s) of code triggering the error.  have you done that?    if yes, what are the lines?  if not, do that.

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Anonymous
April 1, 2011

The error is occuring as soon as I call the constructor for the class. I haven't actually written a class for it so it's crashing when it calls the default constructor created for it by Flash.

Other than the stop(); commands on each keyframe I have written absolutely no other code for it.

Oh I don't know if it makes a difference, but I started having the problem ever since I started trying to follow this tutorial :

http://asgamer.com/2009/making-a-complete-flash-game-creating-understanding-the-preloader

and I changed everything to not export on the first frame, but instead have everything in a MovieClip on frame 2 as described here.

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Anonymous
April 1, 2011

Here is the exact output relating to the error message

at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
    at flash.display::Sprite()
    at flash.display::MovieClip()
    at HowToPlaySection()
    at MainMenu()[/Users/Morgenstern/Documents/FlashandActionScript/Suckabees/MainMenu.as:87]

That line (87) is where the HowToPlaySection constructor is called.

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